Roddick about to face Coria in finals100 OPEN: The American's opponent for the championship will be third-seed Guillermo Coria, who overcame four match points to advance US Open champion Andy Roddick advanced to the final of the Nasdaq-100 Open for the first time, playing nearly flawless tennis to beat Vince Spadea 6-1, 6-3 on Friday(WorldPhotos.com)...USASportAthleticsTennisPhotos

Coffee price rise is just a hill of beansAfter four years of prices so low that many growers abandoned the crop, coffee perked up strongly in the first quarter of this year. But the recovery is ADVERTISEMENT still fragile, warn experts. Excessive production caused the price to fall to 41 cents a pound in September 2001, the lowest in real terms for 100 years, and less than half the price in January 2000(WN)...BrazilVietnamEthiopiaColombiaPhotos

Chavez targets rights activistsCaracas: Liliana Ortega, one of Venezuela's most prominent human rights activists, has been branded an enemy of the state by President Hugo Chavez's government. Chavez accused Ortega's group, known as Cofavic, of receiving US funds in a plot to destabilise his government(ABr)...Human RightsPoliticsUSACaracasPhotos

Agassi bites the dustMIAMI: Andre Agassi was beaten at the Nasdaq-100 Open for the first time in four years on Tuesday, losing 6-2, 7-6 to Argentina's Agustin Calleri in the fourth round. Agassi has won the title in Miami six times, including the last three years, and Calleri's victory snapped a 19-match winning streak the American had compiled at the tournament(WorldPhotos.com)...AthleticsUSASportTennisPhotos

Agassi crushed by CalleriBy Eleanor PrestonMIAMI, Florida (Reuters) - Andre Agassi was beaten at the Nasdaq-100 Open for the first time in four years, losing 6-2 7-6 to Argentina's Agustin Calleri in the fourth round.Agassi has won the title in Miami six times, including the last three years, and Calleri's win snapped a 19-match winning streak the American had compiled at the tournament(WorldPhotos.com)...AthleticsSportUSATennisPhotos

Indigenous People From Western Colombia DisplacedFighting Displaces Indigenous People From Western Colombia,Un Agency SaysMore than 1,200 Colombians from indigenouscommunities recently fled their ancestral homelands near theborder with Panama because of heavy fighting betweenleft-wing and right-wing forces, the United Nations HighCommissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today(UNHCR)...ColombiaS AmericaUNRefugeesPhotos

Venezuela's Supreme Court to Decide Chavez Recall DisputeVenezuela's full Supreme Court wasasked by its electoral chamber to decide if petitions collectedto force a recall vote on President Hugo Chavez bear enough validsignatures to trigger the special election. The electoral chamber earlier ruled earlier that asufficient number of signatures were valid, a decision latercontradicted by the court's constitutional chamber(WorldPhotos.com)...CaracasPoliticsS AmericaElectionPhotos

Serena downs SharapovaTwo-time defending champion Serena Williams defeated 16-year-old Russian prodigy Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-3 in a fourth-round match on Monday at the WTA and ATP Masters Series tournament.The 22-year-old American, playing her first event after an eight-month layoff since winning Wimbledon, hit nine aces and 26 winners to down Sharapova in 75 minutes(WorldPhotos.com)...FloridaTennisSportsRussiaPhotos

OPEC May Delay Oil-Output Cuts as Demand, Prices Rise (Update3)OPEC, source of a third of theworld's oil, may delay oil-production cuts planned for April 1after prices reached a 13-year high in New York, officials fromthe group and analysts said before a meeting in Vienna. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meetsWednesday to consider whether to proceed with a Feb. 10 decisionto lower its output quota by 4 percent(WN)...OPECOilEnergyTradePhotos